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TASK
reading span task
A task that requires participants to read series of unconnected sentences aloud and to remember the final word of each sentence of a series (grouped according to the total number of sentences). With each sentence presented on a card, participants were cued to recall the memorized end-of-sentence words in their original order by a blank card at the end of a series. The number of sentences of a series was incrementally increased until a participant's reading span, or the maximum number of final words correctly recalled, was found. (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_span_task)

Definition contributed by RPoldrack about one year ago.


Task records: 2  

sentence processing
  • reading span of participant minus average reading span of controls
 

visuospatial sketch pad
  • reading span of participant minus average reading span of controls
 


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The nature of age-related decline on the reading span task.
Meguro Y, Fujii T, Yamadori A, Tsukiura T, Suzuki K, Okuda J, Osaka M
(J Clin Exp Neuropsychol)
2000 Jun
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Effects of incentive on working memory capacity: behavioral and pupillometric data.
Heitz RP, Schrock JC, Payne TW, Engle RW
Psychophysiology (Psychophysiology)
2008 Jan
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Cognitive aging and inhibitory efficiency in the Daneman and Carpenter's working memory task.
Schelstraete MA, Hupet M
Experimental aging research (Exp Aging Res)
2002 Jul-Sep
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